Apparent diameter plot for the Moon 2017-2018

The apparent diameter of the Moon varies with the Earth-Moon distance. Depending on the distance, the apparent angular diameter of the Moon is between 29.4 and 33.5 arcminutes. For best astrophotography results, one should pick a time when the moon is closest. Similar to my plot of the apparent size of Venus, I wrote a short program to plot the Moon’s apparent diameter:

Plot of the apparent diameter of the Moon for the time period 2017-2018